Obama Heard of Hillary Emails From News

President Obama claims that he only found out about Hillary Clinton’s private email address use for the State Department from last week’s New York Times report. The same time everybody else learned it through news reports,” the president told CBS News.

“The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived,” he said. “I’m glad that Hillary’s instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.”

On Wednesday, Clinton tweeted, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” Read more at CBS News.